Scientists reveal eerie new details on mysterious ‘interstellar object’ spotted in solar system

Scientists have shared details on a mysterious “interstellar object”, which is streaming throughout the solar system.

The object measures approximately seven miles in diameter, making it bigger than Mount Everest.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, experts have used data from the Vera C Rubin Observatory to determine its vast size and details about it.

Professor Avi Loeb, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist from Harvard University, said that the object could be an alien spacecraft.

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The comet is seven miles in diameter

However, Oxford University astronomer, Chris Lintott, is unconvinced, telling LiveScience: “Any suggestion that it’s artificial is nonsense on stilts.”

He suggested these claims are an “insult to the exciting work going on to understand this object”.

Vera C Rubin snapped images of the comet before it was officially discovered.

But since July 1, scientists have gone through further data to find out more about the object.

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In a new study from arXiv, more than 200 researchers have confirmed that the likely size of the comet’s main body is around 3.5miles.

This gives it a diameter of about seven miles, making it the largest interstellar object discovered to date.

Beyond its wide size, researchers pinpointed certain details on 3I/ATLAS’s coma, including the cloud of ice, dust and gas surrounding it.

Researchers predict the comet possesses large quantities of ice and dust inside its coma.

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3I/ATLAS spotted in space

For alien enthusiasts, this will come as a disappointment.

This composition suggests that 3I/ATLAS is likely a natural comet, and not alien-built.

Speaking to MailOnline, Professor Loeb stated that its extortionate speed indicates an alien might control it.

He said: “It is difficult to imagine a natural process that would favour a plunge towards the inner solar system at 60 kilometres per second. An alternative is that the object targets the inner solar system by some technological design.”

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